The Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to have a rerun of the parliamentary election in 19 polling places in the Ablekuma North Constituency has been highly criticized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has called the action unwarranted and devoid of agreement.
“Our representatives were at the meeting, and I have to put it on record that there was no such agreement with the EC,” stated Haruna Mohammed, the deputy general secretary of the NPP, in an interview on Citi Eyewitness News after the EC’s July 2 news release.
“That the political parties did not agree is very evident in the release of the EC itself,” he continued.
The EC clarified that the reason it decided to rerun the election in 19 of the 37 contested polling places was because the presiding officers had not verified the scanned Pink Sheets used for collation. When party supporters apparently overran the collation center, the actual pink sheets were destroyed.
But according to the NPP, the remaining results—especially those from three polling places—are sufficient to finish the tallying and select a winner.
“What the EC is doing is unknown to us. Mohammed declared, “The NPP will not give up on this particular battle.”
“We don’t know of any elections,” he added. We are clear that the EC needs to complete the collation on the three voting places, which is currently pending.
In addition, the NPP argued that security should be provided to safeguard the collation process instead of conducting another vote in polling places where party representatives had already approved the results.
At 10 a.m. today, the party is scheduled to have a press conference where General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong would discuss the issue with the country and lay out the NPP’s official stance.
The EC has scheduled the rerun for Friday, July 11, 2025, promising the public a peaceful and transparent process with the Ghana Police Service on hand to maintain security.